Strange video clip looped on Comcast’s PBS overnight
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Strange video clip looped on Comcast's PBS overnight...
Comcast Cable customers were surprised to turn on Ch. 2 early morning Wednesday, to find a quick looping video of a young man staring at the camera speaking in a foreign language.
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Comcast spokesperson, Russell Byrd, says there was no indication that anything was different with their programming.
Boones Creek, Tenn.—Instead of PBS’s regularly scheduled “Antique Roadshow” showing this morning during the 5 a.m. hour, Bonnie Hogan of Boones Creek, saw a looping video of a young man staring at a camera speaking in a foreign language. On the bottom of the screen it read, in English, “If you help me, only then will I help you, isn’t it?“ Hogan has Comcast Cable, and her daughter, in Johnson City, has Charter. Her daughter’s PBS showed the regularly scheduled program. Facebook responses proved that other Comcast users also saw this bizarre clip for hours overnight.
The Director of Engineering at PBS in Knoxville, Tenn. says they had malfunctions overnight. It was a glitch in PBS’s computer system that feeds to the specific transmitter that Comcast in East Tennessee picks up; that’s why it wasn’t on any other station. The system grabbed a bit of video, and just kept replaying it over and over again.
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